Business Administration 2295F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Richard D. Hansen, Scientific Management, Hawthorne Effect
6 Apr 2016
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Organizational behaviour: the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations. How to understand people and manage them to work effectively. How organizations can survive and adapt to change. How to get people to practice effective teamwork. The goals of organizational behaviour are to predict, explain, and manage behaviour in organizations. Manage putting the research to work. Management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others. Al (2002) asked hr professionals these and other questions. Found some discrepancies between research findings and practitioners" beliefs. In particular, practitioners placed little faith in intelligence tests and personality inventories. But, consider the perspective of richard hansen, hr professional. Organizations often fail to adopt practices that research has deemed effective. Translating principles into practice based on the best scientific evidence rather than personal preference. Defined by specialization of labour, coordination and centralized decision making. Series of research studies at western electric company. Focused researchers" interests on work behaviour in organizations.
